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Barbingyesterday at 9:51 PM2 repliesview on HN

Heard smoke test IRL & was confused to see it used indeed in place of “sanity check”. Weird.


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tempest_yesterday at 10:28 PM

I have heard people use smoke test but not nearly at the same rate an LLM uses.

If a repo is bare of CLAUDE.md but mentions a smoke test in a commit in the last year I assume it to be LLM written.

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tom_today at 12:09 AM

Can't remember when I first heard it, but I searched my email and got a pile of results from 2012 and 2009. It's possible there's earlier in there somewhere but 2009 was a busy year so I got bored of clicking the "more results" button...

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